The SECOND OPINION bu Michael Palmer *****`

This was a page turner for me. It's was a medical mystery about a female Doctor, her family and dad who was comatose in his own hospital. She finds out it's not an accident that he's in there and strange xrays show up on other people. Some  die some don't.

She eventually figures out the whole thing but is trapped with a killer before she knows what's going on and getting out of that situation was a good enough ending for me. I liked that the story kept my attention, the characters were well drawn for me, I was empathetic towards the characters.

Drawn in and really enjoying the ride. I would buy it.

THIS IS NOT OVER by Holly Brown ***

I was ok with the book. It's about 2 people with issues that get into an argument about a vacation rental. The owner and renter. I liked the story going back and forth between them, I didn't mind the inner blahblah but I found both characters to be low on self esteem, high on the blame game and not very realistic.

So I'd say it's ok, get it at at the library.

I don't like how the author set up questions at the end in case I'm in a book club and don't have the intelligence to ask my own questions. That's a superiority complex of the author. I don't like the book enough to discuss it. It wasn't as if this is "To Kill A Mockingbird" or even close. It's not that memorable or socially important. If you didn't put those questions in I wouldn't have said what I did. And it IS OVER.

The KRAKEN PROJECT *****

I enjoyed reading this and it has a futuristic premise about AI, or intelligent, self aware software programs. There are some well build characters, relationships are well thought out, easy to pick out the good/bad guys.

I had trouble putting the book down because the AI (Melissa was working for NASA) was created to live on a moon around Saturn and because Melissa gave it autonomy it really didn't want the job and escaped by blowing up a test site she was placed in, it was a hostile environment. Then she traveled the internet, being abused online etc.

Finally after all she learned she was ashamed of her earlier behavior blowing up a building and killing some people. She was being searched by Melissa and some guys who used software to beat the system of betting on stocks. They wanted her because she had intelligence and their own program wasn't fast enough.

Very good reading. I would buy it, and did at Dollar General for 3 bucks! :)

KILLER by Jonathan Kellerman *****

This is an Alex Delaware novel. I like the descriptions and people cuz I've been reading about them for a long time. The Sykes family is having issues with a new born baby and custody battles. One of the sisters to the mother of the baby was brutally killed as was a cop and 2 old boyfriends of the mom. So that's the basic set up.

Everytime they get a lead on someone he or she ends up dead. Finally at the end you get details of what happened and why. Like it a lot.

DANCE OF DEATH by Preston & Child *****

This was a page turner for me. I hated falling asleep because I was afraid I'd lose my place. This has Pendergast and he's having a lot of trouble with his supposedly dead brother Diogenes. So by the end it's difficult to know wether Pendergast IS Diogenes.

I found it really puzzling and things happened quick. It's very intriguing.

PRAYING FOR SLEEP by Jeffery Deaver *****

This book is a fast paced story. Begins with an escaped prisoner who is huge and is blamed for a few murders on his way to Lis who lives about 4 hrs or so from the hospital where he escaped from. Michael, the mental patient, knows her from 6 months ago and is determined to get to her house to approach her.

Lots of police and trackers, plus her husband Owen are all trying to track Michaels trail and he gets closer and closer to Lis. There a lot of red herrings and side stories with Lis and her sister Portia, plus who cheated on who. No one really knows what Michael is talking about because he's not clear in his thinking.

Without giving away stuff, you'll want to page turn this sucker without falling asleep. It's hard to put down for sure. I really liked it. Picked it up at a yard sale so it may be an older book but a very good one.

CAUGHT by Harlan Coben *****

Just finished this book, very good if not a tiny bit confusing at times. Too many red herrings and it interferes with sleep drifting off going who TF is that? Anyway the story is mostly about a newspaper reporter who is NEVER at the newspaper or writing down anything and she's trying to help the cops solve teenage girls disappearing.

So a few people confess, rig phony evidence, go out of their way to be obtuse, never tell the truth the first time and you know the games people play? Well it's all fun and games.

I thought it was a well written story line and had beginning, middle and end so liked it. Was a yard sale find. I would buy it tho, good story as long as you have a good memory for names and relationships. I do not.

ABDUCTION by Robin Cook *****

I found this at a yard sale and it's really good reading. Never lost interest at all. Takes place in the ocean first aboard a ship and then...not giving anything away. Read it, very intriguing and unlike his usual stuff not so much a medical story.

There may be another world someplace..who knows?

The SCORPIO ILLUSION by Robert Ludlum ***

This is a big book. I tried to start it as all of them in bed to fall asleep. These names all within 28 pages: Amaya, Jacob, Portici, Cabrini, Nico, Henri Ardisonne, Ron, O'Ryan, Richelieu, Officer Cooke, Bajaratt, Geoff, Tyrell Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mr. Gillette, Tye, Marty, Gordie, Roger, Jickey, Nicolo, . Now that's just people. If I started with the names of towns and villages it would be about 30-40.

I cannot do that many names in that short a period of time. I am not going to draw diagrams telling me who said what from where. So I put the damn book down forever at page 30.

Not into spy stuff I suppose. Have at it yourself. Yard sale find $1.00

O is for OUTLAW by Sue Grafton ****

Aside from a cast of hundreds this was an easy book to get thru. Sort of fast paced if you can memorize who everyone mentioned is. There are a lot of suspects of course we must go back 20 freaking years to find out who shot her ex husband from 20 years ago.

The going back in time to figure out stuff is really getting old, it's used by almost every recent author I've read, at least the last 3-7 books and I'm pretty sick of it. If you like Grafton you'll like this story. I would get it at the library. Then get in the time machine and go back 20 years; actually 40 years cuz she's already working in the 60s. So yeah....getting OLD.